President John Dramani Mahama has sworn-in Dr Alhassan Iddrisu as Government Statistician, tasking him to be bold, innovative, and ...

Fitch Solutions, through its subsidiary, BMI – a British multinational research firm, has kept Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ...

Total Q1 gold demand (inclusive of OTC investment) was 1% higher y/y at 1,206t – the highest for a first quarter since 2016.

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this IMF press briefing. I am Julie Kozack, Director of the Communications Department. Thank you so very much for joining us this morning and, as usual, we are going ...

The severity of stagflation can be measured by the "misery index," a straightforward sum of the inflation and unemployment rates. As the misery index rises, Americans face the painful combination ...

The report highlights a deepening and multifaceted food crisis across West Africa, where persistent price volatility, climate shocks, and economic instability continue to erode food security for ...

Covering 15 markets across Nigeria and Ghana, the Index highlights the evolving impact of economic shifts on food affordability. The Nigerian index The chart compares the cost ... highlights worsening ...

Japan rice prices soar as core inflation accelerates ... is forecast to chart an economic expansion of 6.2 percent in 2025, ...

and chart a path towards building a more resilient and competitive business landscape in the country. President Mahama's observation comes on the back of consumer inflation rate declining for the ...

India's retail inflation reached a multi-year low in March, while rising imports widened the trade deficit in 2024-25. Meanwhile, the government is planning to launch a multi-year incentive for ...

“So interest rates, if you were to drop interest rates, you would stoke inflation,” responded Charlotte Howard, executive editor of The Economist, articulating the basic economic truth that ...

This means that rising inflation likely would delay any Fed easing to avert a recession. Fed officials aren’t about to lower the federal funds rate (FFR) anytime soon, as they have been saying ...